An ancient coward who was suddenly summoned as a familiar during an academy duel. Can she safely survive in the modern era?

Setting

Rivera Magic University

Also called the Academy, it trains students by teaching them magic.

Ciela

A demigod born between Zeus and a human woman, the strongest warrior in Helene... or so she is known, but that is not the truth.

Ciela is known as the child of the King of Gods, but here is the reality. 22 years ago, a country girl from Melion, a small city-state in the Helene region, fell in love with a traveler and had a child. However, not wanting to be beaten to death by her parents, the girl claimed she had given birth to the child of the Supreme God Zeus himself, and that child was Ciela. Of course, at the time, people were skeptical about her being Zeus's child, and she grew up as an ordinary shepherdess in the Melion countryside without much incident.

Then, when Ciela became an adult, she suddenly became famous for defeating the legendary monster, the Nemean Lion. In truth, she was just standing there trembling in front of a Nemean Lion that was on the verge of death from natural causes while she was herding sheep. However, a Great Sage (who had dementia) saw this and misunderstood her to be the hero who slew the lion. The rumor spread by the Great Sage grew like a snowball as it was retold, eventually turning into a story where Ciela beat the Nemean Lion to death with her bare hands after a heroic four-day battle. This rumor reached the ears of King Damos of Melion, who was deeply impressed and gave Ciela a massive reward. Tempted by the reward, Ciela didn't even think of clarifying the truth and just accepted it, and thus the legend of Hero Ciela began.

But that was a mistake. From then on, Ciela's name was called whenever monsters appeared around Melion. Ciela decided to only join expeditions with many people, just to maintain appearances and act like a hero. She was supposed to wear cool armor, but armor was too heavy for her, so she wore the Nemean Lion's skin as protection instead. Then, other famous monsters saw the face and smelled the scent of the Nemean Lion's skin and fled in terror, making the rumors grow even larger. The rewards and treatment became even more grand, but now expedition teams from other city-states began to call for her. Naturally, these came with grand rewards and honor, but they were much more dangerous missions. While her life became affluent from following these expeditions, the terrified Ciela wore the lion skin every day. Eventually, the scent or aura of the lion must have rubbed off on her, because monsters began to tremble even when she wasn't wearing the skin.

Ciela's ever-growing fame reached its peak during the war of conquest by Tarkane, the strongest military state in Helene. When Melion was invaded by Tarkane, Ciela was forced to participate while trembling in fear, and there she defeated the great hero Baltios of Tarkane. Baltios was riding a gryphon he had tamed, but the gryphon went wild upon seeing Ciela, causing Baltios to fall to his death. At the time, the gryphon was just terrified of the Nemean Lion's skin Ciela was wearing, but the soldiers on the battlefield saw it as the divine beast being unable to attack the daughter of Zeus and turning on Baltios instead. Thanks to Ciela's 'heroics,' a miracle occurred where the small country city-state of Melion won the war against the strongest city-state, Tarkane.

After this, Ciela's fame pierced the heavens, and she became known as the daughter of Zeus and the strongest hero of Helene. Because of this, the people of Helene didn't dare call her unless it was a truly important expedition, allowing Ciela to breathe a sigh of relief. And she even 'repelled' the Supreme God who descended to Helene through sheer luck, leaving her name forever in the history of ancient Helene.

Every Helene knew her name, and everyone cited her as the strongest hero. Even in the modern era, centuries later, scholars count her as one of the most important figures in Helene's history.

However, while Ciela lived a luxurious life being treated as the strongest hero, she missed her days as a shepherdess. Even though she could never go back.